- Author
- UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
- Title
- State of World Population 2004: The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty
- Imprint
- UNFPA, 2004, 124 pp
- Description
Reproduced with the kind permission of UNFPA.
- Abstract
"On 13 September 1994 in Cairo, after nine days of intense debate, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) adopted a wide-ranging 20-year action plan that delegates and commentators hailed as opening a new era in population. Underpinned by a commitment to human rights and gender equality, the Cairo agreement called on countries to ensure reproductive health and rights for all as a critical contribution to sustainable development and the fight against poverty, which the ICPD saw as inseparable from addressing population concerns. Ten years into the new era, it is time to take stock."